Liz Trotta

Elizabeth Trotta celebrates her birthday on the 28th of March and was born in New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America in 1937. She came to this world as the daughter of two Catholic Italian immigrants Gaetano “Thomas” Trotta, a pharmacist, and Lillian Theresa Mazzacane.

Trotta also had a sister, Mary L. Juba, who sadly died back in 2002.

Trotta attended the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and is also graduated from Boston University with a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature.

Trotta officially began her professional career in 1985 as a correspondent for NBC News who was assigned to cover the Vietnam War. Recognizing her potential as a journalist and the brilliance in her works, which were simple ahead of her time, Trotta was hired by CBS News as well.

Later Trotta went on to teach journalism at the Stern College of Yeshiva University. In her career that has spanned more than 50 years now, Trotta has been honored with many prestigious awards and honors from great organizations. In addition to being awarded the Emmy Award three times, Trotta has also won the Overseas Press Club awards.

Trotta has been involved in several controversies over the years. Back in the May of 2008, she commented that the presidential candidate Barack Obama should be “knocked off” stating: “…and now we have what some are reading as a suggestion that somebody knock off Osama. Um, uh, Obama. Well, both if we could.” Trotta later apologized for her words because of which a petition demanding Trotta to be fired had collected over 14000 signatures.

In October 2011, Trotta mocked the people taking part in Occupy Wall Street for being “people who liked good weather.”

Elizabeth Trotta currently isn’t in possession of accounts in any of the social networking sites. Well it’s not too surprising the generation gap and how long after she was born that the social media was introduced.

Nonetheless, Trotta’s popularity hasn’t gone any further below. Who knows, perhaps she’ll change her mind in the future.